'48 Biblioc/t^aphical Notices. the equator, the true picture of a northern fir-wood. Soon how-ever, as the tortuous rhinoceros-path greatly assists the ascent, these iirs also leave us, and all the larger forest-trees disappear at about a height of 7000 feet. But now begins a variegated mixture of the most manifold and magnificent shrubs covering the acclivities, and the eye rests with rapture on the lovely blossom-covered bushes of Gna-phalium javanicum and Hypericum javanicum, BL, of Lonicera jia-vescens, Gaultheria punctata, and others, under the shade of which the forms of northern plants, as Valeriana, Ranunculus, Thalictrum, Swertia, Viola, and Plantago, appear as old acquaintances. We now took our way through these bushes, and came, at near ten o'clock, to a small headland, from whence we looked down upon the clouds far below, appearing like a white moving sea : this headland resem-bles a plateau, which interrupts the continuous and steep side of the mountain ; on the north-east it is bounded by a deep cleft, is moreover of only small extent, and soon rises again to the mountain-top, which is about 1000 feet higher. Beside small shrubs, it is especially overgrown with tall species of grass, amongst which several low-trodden rhinoceros-paths wind their course. But the acclivity of the mountain itself is clothed with small woods of a peculiar appearance, which ascend up nearly to the edge of the cra-ter; in some tracts it is Acacia montana (Ka-mnlandingang) , whose slender stalks are pressed together; in others Thihaudia varitigicE/olia, which we never saw so luxuriant and strong as here ; it forms a shady wood, through which we made our way along a rhinoceros-path ; its stems attain the thickness of a man's thigh up to that of a man's body, and rise in a sinuous, generally oblique direction, twenty to thirty feet high, before they branch out into the leafy crowns. The long Usnecc, which hang down from the branches — the thick layers of numerous mosses and lichens, which together fructifying in the most luxuriant manner, clothe the knotted sinuous stems — further, the enormous circumference of a species of plant which we are quite unused to meet with so large, — give to this forest an extra-ordinary, primaeval, and as it were a solemn appearance. The ground in the wood is covered with grasses, among which here and there occurs a Balanophora elongata, Bl., which we found at such heights, parasitical on roots of Thihaudia." [To be continued.] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Vol. ii. Parts 1 & 2. Edinburgh, 1845. It will not be requisite that we should say anything more concerning this publication, since the papers contained in it are already known to our readers, they having appeared in vols. xi. to xvi. of these 'Annals.' They are now resissued in the present form for the convenience of the Members of the Society, and in conformity with a resolution
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